Interesting article.
I think the article is most correct at the end. The problem isn’t that we’re a nation going in different cultural directions. The problem is that Tennessee would be quite content to let New York be New York, but New York will not be content to let Tennessee be Tennessee. And that’s been our biggest problem for more than a century.
^ excellent articulation of the analogy.
Post of the day, so far!
Your probably right about that, although its worth noting that our strength in no small part comes to our activity as voters.
The left rely heavily upon their domination in areas of Public and private education and media to sway a lackluster public that pays limited attention and votes only in ‘major’ elections.
We dominate in the minor & low turn out elections.
What is unclear is how many of them would continue to vote for liberals if they really started to pay attention. Polarization seems to suggest they would stick to their side no matter how much its killing them and their country.
Playing on Trump’s liberal past may be a good General election tactic to sway some of the ill-informed democrats to join our side the same way he did.
In the end however your right, liberalism is not content to allow people to live as they choose, as they have justified their vastly powerful governments punitive role in commanding every aspect of people’s money and life on the basis of correcting supposed evils that they feel everyone should have a right to not endure regardless of the fact that they exist as a product of nature not man, and that ‘correcting them’(they rarely ever do) under their leader’s plans involves creating still other more dangerous evil’s upon the entire of the population.
The left’s Objection to letting Tennessee be Tennessee, is thus largely directed by their leaders who recognize that their solution’s actually create circumstances in their State far worse than the ‘evil’ they supposedly corrected.
This basic reality is then blamed upon the ‘hard workers’ IE industry that leaves for freer pastures. Instead of staying there as slave labor for their ‘solution’ to supposed social issues.
This is of course untrue, as their state’s natural resources as vast as any gives them a base level of potential industry provided they don’t drive that industry completely out of business by making it impossible to work. The people will buy what is cheapest and work for whom ever pays the best. Unfortunately for them under socialism that is always in anther country that embraces more economic freedom.
The alternative is the people simply become slaves, traped within their states to labor in whatever relatively low paying job can be made available under the rules of the state’s socialist system paying whatever high priced Good is legal to buy under the same rules of the same socialist state. Thus people would always have less if they could not work and buy in freer countries.